Preface / Bradford Morrow -- The function of the poet in society (1936) -- Poetry, regeneration, and D.H. Lawrence (1947) -- The visionary painting of Morris Graves (1955) -- Simon Weil (1957) -- Disengagement : the art of the beat generation (1957) -- San Francisco letter (1957) -- Rimbaud as capitalist adventurer (1957) -- Jazz poetry (1958) -- Revolt : true and false (1958) -- The Hasidism of Martin Buber (1959) -- Sung culture (1960) -- The students take over (1960) -- Turner and Whistler (1960) -- Gnosticism (1960) -- The influence of French poetry on American (1961) -- The poet as translator (1961) -- What's wrong with the clubs (1961) -- The institutionalization of revolt, the domestication of dissent (1963) -- Why is American poetry culturally deprived? (1963) -- Community planning (1964) -- The heat (1966) -- The spiritual alchemy of Thomas Vaughan (1967) -- The cubist poetry of Pierre Reverdy (1969) -- Who is alienated from what? (1970) -- The influence of classical Japanese poetry on modern American poetry (1973) -- The art of literature (1974) -- Lafcadio Hearn and Buddhism (1977)